Temporary Shutdown Of Temba Water Treatment Plant

25 August 2021

Temporary Shutdown Of Temba Water Treatment Plant

The City of Tshwane (CoT) has, over the last week, been experiencing equipment failure and maintenance-related challenges at the Temba Water Treatment Plant. The challenges have affected the plant negatively, resulting in the quality of water produced at the plant deteriorating gradually.
As of 25 August 2021, the quality of water produced at the Temba Water Treatment Plant has severely deteriorated leaving the City with no choice but to temporarily shut down the plant.

The deteriorated water quality is mainly due to equipment failure at the Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) Filtration and the Ozone Plant. It must be indicated that the current equipment failures experienced at the Temba plant are not a result of the work currently taking place at the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Plant.

The City is currently busy with repairs of the affected equipment, however, repairs are taking longer than anticipated to complete due to the lead time in sourcing some of the spares and materials from suppliers. It is anticipated that the repairs will be completed and the plant brought back to operation by Friday 27 August 2021.

The City will provide updates on the repairs and communicate accordingly should further delays be experienced.

In order to ensure continuous water supply to residents, the City has increased deployment of roaming water tankers from 50 to 70 tankers until the plant is back in operation. The water tankers source water from fire hydrants connected to the Rand Water system (Soshanguve DD pipeline) and the Magalies Water system (Babelegi reservoir).

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